Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:42:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - VALIDATION MANUALS
From: info-elra@calva.net (Valerie Mapelli)
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
ELRA News
*** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - LANGUAGE RESOURCES
VALIDATION MANUALS ***
ELRA is happy to announce that the manuals for lexica and written corpora
can now be obtained free of charge from the ELRA secretariat or the ELRA Web
site.
VALIDATION MANUAL FOR LEXICA:
The final version of the validation manual for lexica was produced and
delivered in June of 1997 from CST, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark. The
work on the lexicon manuals involved technical validation and conformity
with standards (both the producer's own and ELRA's). This resulted in
content validation and the drafting of the chapters of the ELRA validation
manual, the ELRA standard and the validation methodology (including
validation schemata).
VALIDATION MANUAL FOR WRITTEN CORPORA:
The work on a manual for written corpora subcontracted to the Humanities
Computing Unit, Oxford University, UK and they have during 1997 produced a
draft for the manual, which has been made public and open for comments and
feedback. The final version is planned to be ready in the beginning of 1998.
The work was initiated with a first phase which consisted of consulting
several experts in order to get a consensus about the real needs. This
produced a first document entitled "The Definition of a Functional
Specification for the Technical Validation of Language Corpora". Also a
questionnaire was published on the ELRA and University of Lancaster Web
sites, this to inquire for feedback from interested parties. The draft
document covers the approaches for the establishment of an analytic
framework for validation (technical and descriptive characteristics,
linguistic properties), and the definition of appropriate validation
procedures.
The manuals are:
Lexicon validation:
"Towards a standard for the evaluation of lexica", N Underwood & C Navaretta.
"A draft manual for the validation of lexica - Final report", N Underwood
& C Navaretta.
Corpora validation:
"An analytic framework for the validation of language corpora", P Baker, L
Burnard, A McEnery & A Wilson.=20
To obtain copies, please contact ELRA at the following address:
ELRA
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin
75013 Paris, France
tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33
fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
email. elra-elda@calva.net (Ms Malin Nilsson)
or download them from the ELRA Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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